25 Replies to “New York”

That Times Square photo reminds me of some turn of the century polemic where it was direly predicted that this whole skyscaper fad that the kids were so fond of would result in the street level being reduced to grim, lightless canyons.

The “progress” at Ground Zero is appalling. I’ve been following it for awhile, and they’ve really pretty much just started construction around a year and a half ago, 6 years after 9/11. Good news is that they’re starting to look like they’re making progress.

It will be interesting to see whether Tower 4 managed by private contracters will go up before 1 world trade center, built by the port authority.

PS, Bank of America tower on left side in picture of things north of empire state. Apparently the “greenest” or one of the greenest buildings in the world.

Under my marital vows, I am contractually obliged to assert whenever appropriate that Liberty Island is in New Jersey, although the wikipedia article clears it up a little bit – it’s still owned by New York, NJ provide all the utilities, and interestingly, NJ actually own the “submerged mass” of the island. Sure, until they try to remove it.

When I saw the Deus Ex pic I laughed.
When I saw the ‘chocolate’ (butyric acid added to make it as rubbish as Hershey’s is naturally), I wasn’t so amused any more.
And when I saw the last few comments I laughed again.

Congrats on the trip. Did you get vertigo from the top of the Empire State Building? It’s really, really tall. And also the elevator doesn’t go all the way up, which seems inconsiderate to me.

Bret! I can’t tell if you know this already, but since the syntax threw me the first pass at it, I’ll err on the side of caution: the caption can be rephrased as “Turtles are ok with many things, even death, as demonstrated by how happy this skeletal turtle appears.”
Also, I was wondering why the site went down but now I know. Don’t put hats on beds Tom, haven’t you seen Drugstore Cowboy?